One of the most contested taxes by Italians. The Rai license fee has not yet been eliminated from the electricity bill.
The canon Rai it is probably the most contested tax by Italian citizens. Not the amount itself is disputed, but the very nature of the tax. Many define the service offered by tv public poor and therefore not deserving of this amount. Others, on the other hand, find it incorrect and anachronistic that a tax is paid only for the possession of the device television, because then, in fact, this is what it is about.
In any case, from 2016 considering the number of tax evaders who continued not to pay the TV license fee in Italy, it was decided to combine this tax with the electricity bill. Small installments present in the account of the bill of its users and therefore a deferred payment of deeds but compulsory. Another cascade of protests. Today the fee, at the request of the European institution too, should return to being a separate tax, out of any bills for various utilities.
Rai canon, even Europe warns Italy on the canon
The European Commission has specified, in fact, that the application of the Rai fee in the bill determines a higher cost of the electricity supply for each user: It is urgent that the Government take care of the fee Rai, following the request of the EU to remove it from electricity bills as part of the application of the NRP. If the norm cannot enter the Competition reform, enter into another measure, but the reflection must be done as soon as possible, all the more so after the bad show that Rai is giving on the Olympics “.
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The situation should change in the 2022, until that moment the Rai fee will continue to be merged with the electricity bill. In any case it will go true to a return to the past with the canon which will once again be considered individually. The protests of citizens will continue to exist, citizens who will not want to pay for it. The canon will go back to the old, therefore, and who knows if something could change sooner or later with respect to this very complex dynamic. A major event could already be the same return to single payment, hopefully.
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